Gold Coast Commonwealth Games!

Did you hear that the Gold Coast might be holding the 2018 Commonwealth Games.It would be a great thing for not just QLD but Australia!

Design Change

This month we have decided to change the design of our blog but we need to know you like. This vote will help us make the next redesign template better. This isn't just our blog it is yours as well. So please right a comment and everyone will be happier with the design!

kadokado

kado kado is such a wonderful games u get  4 green gems a day and u can purchase orange gems to save up

Hugh Hefner & Crystal Harris -- The Wedding is OFF!!!

Hugh Hefner's fiancee Crystal Harris is a real-life runaway bride -- 5 days before walking down the aisle ... she bailed out of the Playboy Mansion and multiple sources say the wedding is off! 


Our sources -- who are all at the mansion -- say Crystal, 25, and Hef, 85, had a nasty argument this weekend on the phone. When the dust settled Crystal decided to 86 the nuptials and quickly moved her stuff out.

The wedding was supposed to go down Saturday. It would have been Hef's, umm ... third marriage.

Another Close Blog

I Lissa  will be starting another blog but I won't be leaving this one don't worry. I will tell you when it is coming well actually I have I just have to write in it. It is TEEN BUZZ. THANX

Sony's Tretton apologizes for Playstation Network outage

At Sony's afternoon E3 keynote, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) Jack Tretton issued an apology to third party partners, retailers and consumers for the massive Playstation Network outage.

To the media, who profited a great deal off of the bad news, Tretton said "you're welcome."retton said this was his first opportunity to publicly address the issue, and he thanked users for being patient during the incident.

"I want to apologize both personally and on behalf of the company for any anxiety we've caused you," Tretton said.

Network activity is back up to around 90% of normal functionality, and Tretton said it's something that Sony takes very seriously. When the network returns fully, PSN will begin carrying CinemaNow streaming video content in addition to Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Vudu.

2 new voting questions!

There are two new voting polls one is down the bottom of the page and one at the top. Sorry about the fact you can't see it. Well I am changing it so you can and as brando83 said please say what you thought about it. Thanx!

Yemen's Saleh 'stable' after attack

Yemen's prime minister and other senior officials hurt in an attack on the presidential palace have been transferred to Saudi Arabia for treatment, the state news agency SABA says.

But the condition of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, was "of no cause for concern", a medic told AFP news agency on Saturday, after officials said he was "lightly wounded in the back of the head".

Shells hit a mosque in the presidential palace compound on Friday as officials, including Saleh, were praying.

Saleh was "stable" and treated at a hospital in the capital, Sanaa, the medic said, while other injured officials, including the speakers of both houses of parliament, were taken to neighbouring Saudi Arabia, where hospitals are better equipped than in Yemen.

Hisham Sharaf, minister of trade and industry, said he met Saleh on Friday night and that the president remained defiant in the face of escalating violence.

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"He was in very high morale. The strike that doesn't break you makes you stronger. The strike made him more adamant that he won't hand over the country until he is sure it will be safe and clear of militias," Sharaf said.

In an audio address delivered on state television late on Friday night, Saleh said the strike, where "seven officers were martyred", was carried out by an "outlaw gang", referring to the Hashed tribal federation led by Sadiq al-Ahmar, a powerful dissident tribesman.

Al-Ahmar's fighters have been battling government forces in the capital since a truce crumbled on Tuesday.

Witnesses said sporadic shelling and rocketfire on Saturday rattled the al-Hasaba district of northern Sanaa where al-Ahmar has his base, forcing residents to flee. The area is suffering from water and electricity cuts.

Taiz withdrawal

Elsewhere in Yemen, officials said police and military units have withdrawn from the southern city of Taiz after a week of clashes with pro-reform demonstrators that left dozens dead.

"Looting and scenes of chaos are spreading after the withdrawal of security forces and the army from the city," the opposition leader, who asked not to be named, told Reuters news agency.

Tareq al-Shami, a ruling party official, confirmed the government's security forces had pulled back from the city which is about 200km south of the capital.

The UN human rights chief said her office was investigating reports that as many as 50 have been killed in Taiz since Sunday.

Abdul Ghani al-Iryani, an independent political analyst in Sanaa, told Al Jazeera that it was "quite reasonable to assume" that al-Ahmar's fighters were behind the palace hit on Friday.

"[The tribesmen] probably wanted him to know that [Saleh] can no longer attack them with impunity, and that they can reach him as he can reach them," al-Iryani said.

But al-Ahmar's office denied responsibility and instead blamed Saleh for the attack, calling it part of his effort to help justify a government escalation of street fighting in the capital.

Call for ceasefire

Ten people were killed and 35 others injured in southern Sanaa on Friday as Yemeni troops shelled the home of Hamid al-Ahmar, the brother of Sadiq al-Ahmar, Hamid's office said on Saturday.

Hamid, a prominent businessman, is a leader of Yemen's biggest opposition party, Al-Islah (reform).

The shelling in Hada neighbourhood also targeted the homes of Sadiq's two other brothers, Hemyar and Mizhij, and that of Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a dissident army general.

The US has condemned Friday's violence, including the attack on the Saleh's palace, and called for him to transfer power.

"We call on all sides to cease hostilities immediately and to pursue an orderly and peaceful process of transferring political power as called for in the GCC-brokered agreement," the White House said, referring to the Gulf Co-operation Council.

Yemen's parliamentary opposition on Saturday called for an "immediate" ceasefire.

The Common Forum alliance condemned what it said was the "the dangerous twist which the clashes have taken in targeting the homes of citizens, the presidential palace, and vital installations".

The alliance of parliamentary opposition groups urged "quick action" from the international community "to save Yemen and its people from falling into [civil] war", in the statement.

School of Rock Tribute Concerts

True story. My first new car was a 1994 silver VW Jetta that had a huge black, vinyl sticker of Jim Morrison’s face on it. I was a huge Doors fan. I blasted “Peace Frog” as I drove and I even had a copy of The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison on my passenger seat at all times. So when I heard about School of Rock’sTribute to The Doors concert, I got a bit nostalgic.

Would it look silly if I put a Jim Morrison sticker on my station wagon?

School of Rock Montclair’s “Tribute To The Doors” Concert
Who: All ages.
What:  A two-hour show featuring students in School of Rock’s Performance Program, who have been rehearsing their repertoires since January. Songs to be performed in the Doors concert will include such favorites as “Roadhouse Blues”, “Love Her Madly”, “L.A. Woman”, and “Riders On The Storm.”
Where & When:Just Jake’s, 30 Park Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042 on Sunday, June 5. Doors open at 3:30 pm and showtime is 4 pm.
Trumpets, 6 Depot Square, Montclair, NJ, 07042 on Saturday, June 12. Doors open at 1 pm and showtime is 2 pm.
Cost: $10 for adult, $5 for ages 7 to 18. For more information, contact School of Rock Montclair at (973) 337-5296.  Tickets can be purchased in advance at School of Rock Montclair,125 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ, 07042 or at the venue on the day of the show.

If music from the 90s is more your style, School of Rock will also perform two Green Day Vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert this month as well:

School of Rock Montclair’s “Green Day Vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers” Concert
Who: All ages.
What:  A two-hour show featuring students in School of Rock’s Performance Program, who have been rehearsing their repertoires since January. Songs in the Green Day Vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers concert will include hits from both bands, including ”Higher Ground”, “American Idiot”, “Dani California”, and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.
Where & When:Just Jake’s, 30 Park Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042 on Sunday, June 5. Doors open at 12 pm and showtime is 1 pm.
Trumpets, 6 Depot Square, Montclair, NJ, 07042 on Saturday, June 11. Doors open at 1 pm and showtime is 2 pm.
Cost: $10 for adult, $5 for ages 7 to 18. For more information, contact School of Rock Montclair at (973) 337-5296.  Tickets can be purchased in advance at School of Rock Montclair,125 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ, 07042 or at the venue on the day of the show.

A giant leap of evolution

The cane toad is unstoppable. DENISE CARTER speaks to director Mark Lewis about the ecological scourge that has triumphed over humanity

Hated and cast as evil and ugly, the cane toad is bashed, stuffed, frozen, gassed and treated with the utmost contempt all over Australia.

But Mark Lewis, director of Cane Toads: The Conquest, shows more than one side to this much maligned creature.

We see him (the cane toad) as a protagonist battling his way down the highway of life, eating and romancing, as people do, calmly weathering his life’s tragedies, while imbuing other’s lives with hate and love and humour.

It is this empathetic view of the cane toad, with accompanying music to his endeavours, which makes it quite shocking when he is killed.

"It lends itself to irreverent and humorous treatment," Mark Lewis says about his film.

"But it is also a tragedy."

A documentary in 3D created on a road trip of 22 weeks "through the Queensland floods to the heat of Western Australia", the tale follows the cane toad from its initial introduction to Australia from South America, through its failure to do what it was supposed to do (get rid of the greyback cane beetle) to its adaptation to the environment and its advance, despite all the arsenal mankind continues to throw at it, across the country.

Were the cane toad not declared a pest, this would be a tale of triumph over adversity.

One of the most unusual elements of this docu-film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year, is that Mark gives as much time to people who say the cane toad is beautiful, with its large golden eyes and pleasant smiling mouth, as to the people who believe the only good cane toad is a dead cane toad.

"We played with lot of different elements," Mark says.

"It’s a road movie, a romantic comedy, it’s suggestive of Alien, and the cane toad is unstoppable like The Terminator."

This is the second lunge Mark has made at the inner world of the cane toad, his first being Cane Toad: An Unnatural Historyin 1988, which became a cult classic and which was nominated for a BAFTA award for best short film.

So what has changed in the battle of cane toad versus man in the interim years?

"The greatest change and addition to my knowledge is that the war is over," Mark says. "For all the control methods, they keep hopping away. The other thing is that nature will restore itself."

But there is one question which Mark was not able to answer, where this now evolved super toad is going, breaking its little legs down into stumps as it crosses miles of land.

"We don’t know," he says. "They have evolved to climactic conditions."

Scientists in the documentary say they never expected the cane toad to cross the Gulf of Carpentaria much less from the Northern Territory into Western Australia.

"The only thing that stops them is extreme cold, but by our knowledge of how they are evolving, who knows?" Mark Lewis says.

Lewis personifies his cast of animals. There’s a dog who eats a cane toad and we witness him being taken to hospital (vet hospital), which is played out much like an episode of ER,Grey’s Anatomy or House as his family watch over him in intensive care.

There’s another dog, Dobby, who loves to lick cane toads for the kick he derives out of it and we see him having an LSD-type trip.

"It was a wonderful opportunity to do an LSD trip from a dog’s point of view," Mark says.

Then there’s a whole host of characters who either hate or love the cane toad.

"We found wonderful characters with great and entertaining stories," Mark says.

They include Keith Barnes, from Gordonvale, and Tip Byrne, from Tully.

Naturally, Mark also had "thousands of cane toads" in his cast, including one star toad.

"We took him back in the car and released him in an upper class neighbourhood," Mark says, laughing.

But would he go so far as to have one as a pet like some of the people in the movie?

"I’d love to," he says.

"I’ve wanted a cane toad for myself for a long time. Every time someone finds one for me (it has to be at least one and a half kilos), I’m about two days too late and someone has got at it with a shovel."

Having been involved with every facet of the movie (from writing, directing and producing to promoting), there is only one thing Mark desires when the movie opens after four years of personal investment.

"A long sleep," he says.